Located in the heart of the Middle East and with access to the Red Sea, Jordan is well positioned to serve as a regional logistics centre – a role the country’s leaders are working to expand. In the 1990s the trans-port sector, along with communications, accounted for 0.47% of total real economic growth, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF...
Amman has seen rapid population growth since becom-ing Jordan’s capital. Between 1996 and 2012 alone, the number of residents rose by 48% from 1.67m to 2.47m, according to data from the Department of Sta-tistics. Increased population has brought with it more pressure on the city’s transport infrastructure. Although the municipality has worked to...
A good transport system is a key enabler in any economy, but in the case of Bahrain, an island country, this holds particularly true. Although the nation has relatively small reserves of oil and gas, it has historically been a trading centre, and in the 1970s and 1980s it emerged as the main entrepôt for the Gulf region. As an open economy with a...
There are only three possible entry points to Bahrain: by airport, by the King Fahd Causeway (which links the island to Saudi Arabia) and by port. With the bulk of Bahrain’s imports and a large proportion of its exports entering and leaving by sea, the strength of maritime transport is thus something of a barometer for the overall economic health of...
As part of its economic diversification strategy, Vision 2030, Bahrain is planning to develop an internal public transport network and to build rail connections to both Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Bahrain’s Ministry of Transport is in the process of finalising the country’s railway master plan, which was due to be completed by the end of 2012, but no...
Efforts to ensure long-term economic growth in the republic will not succeed without substantial investments in transport infrastructure. This is well understood by the government, which nearly doubled public spending on the sector as a percentage of GDP between 2004 (1.06%) and 2010 (1.92%), according to figures from the World Bank. “Turkey’s...
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